Re: New Guy
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 30, 2003, 12:22 |
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At 10:03 30.11.2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>According to a hypothesis fairly popular among linguists in my SF coniverse,
>Primitive Azainic - which is effectively unattested thanks to a series of
>major wars over the planets where it must have been spoken, but
>reconstructions show to have been suspiciously regular - was either an
>outright auxlang, or an artificial regularization of some preexisting
>language.
In fact it is a fact acknowledged by some comparatists
that seeming regularity is an artifact of reconstruction,
since many proto-language irregularities tend to disappear
and thus not be attested in all daughter languages.
/BP 8^)
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